Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: XL.Book.DeleteSheetsExcept

Topics All Mac OS X (Only) Windows (Only) Linux (Only, Not) iOS (Only, Not)
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New in version: 7.4 7.5 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 9.0 9.1 Statistic

XL.Book.DeleteSheetsExcept

Deletes all sheets except the one with given name.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Server	FileMaker Cloud	FileMaker iOS SDK
XL	5.4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "XL.Book.DeleteSheetsExcept"; bookRef; Name ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example value

bookRef The reference to the workbook. Please use XL.LoadBook to load a file. $ref

Name The name of the sheet to keep. "People"

Parameter	Description	Example value
bookRef	The reference to the workbook. Please use XL.LoadBook to load a file.	$ref
Name	The name of the sheet to keep.	"People"

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Deletes all sheets except the one with given name.
Returns error if sheet name is not found.
On success, the book has only one sheet left.
If the sheet to delete is referenced by other sheets, this may cause problems.

Examples

Delete all sheets except one:

Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("XL.Book.DeleteSheetsExcept"; $bookRef; "Reiter 2")]

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